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The 5-month-old partisan battle over the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be attorney general got even nastier Thursday, as the White House traded unpleasantries with a key Republican senator and a leading Democrat threatened to try to force a vote.<p>Lynch was nominated in November and went before the …

The open in-fighting ramped up after a breakthrough on the historic bill was announced.<p>The most important trade bill in a decade has pitted Harry Reid against President Barack Obama. Liberal Democrat Rosa DeLauro against moderate Democrat Ron Kind. Labor unions against pro-business Democrats. And …

Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are renewing a push for the school to change the name of a building named after a 19th-century Ku Klux Klan leader.<p>Saunders Hall is named after William Saunders, a Confederate colonel who later became a chief organizer for the KKK in North …

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said on Thursday that he is open to another bipartisan deal to alleviate sequestration before it returns in October.<p>Ryan cautioned that his ability to bring along other House Republicans was more limited now that he no longer chairs the House Budget Committee. …

How annoying it is to play Wisconsin could be seen by the way guard Zak Showalter went about his business Thursday.<p>The Badgers got a career-best from Sam Dekker. Center Frank Kaminsky continued to be a load. Star Traevon Jackson, back from two months off with a fractured foot, even chipped in.<p>But …

The education of a future first lady.<p>In 1988, a group of black students at Harvard Law School compiled a report designed to recognize the growing achievements of black students on campus and share their wisdom with newcomers. The longest essay in the 50-page newsletter was written by a 24-year-old …